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July 2012

Every time we get into a case against a nursing home for elder abuse, one of the first things we look to is whether or not the patient or their family member signed an arbitration agreement requiring the patient and family to give up the right to a jury trial. The nursing homes include these arbitration agreements as part of the stack of documents that the person is to sign on admittance. Because it is simply “part of the stack,” that agreement invariably gets signed without any understanding that the patient is giving away substantial and significant rights. On the rare occasion where q

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On June 22, 2012 the First District Court of Appeal ordered its May 29, 2012 Opinion in Mixon v. State of California, et, al, published in the Official Reports. The parties to the appeal were minor plaintiffs injured in an automobile accident, the State of California (State), and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E).